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Innovators Connect – Tandem 2024

Innovators Connect – Tandem is two weeks immersion programme for young researchers interested in start-up founding and early-stage start-up founders from India and Germany. Participants will work in teams to generate innovative ideas, undergo training for bringing research ideas to market and get exposure to start-up and innovation ecosystems of India and Germany. The programme will include design thinking workshops, information sessions, mentoring, networking sessions, lab visits and more.

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India: Silicon Valley of the future?

India has made quite a stir internationally in the recent months. A successful moon landing, the G20 summit in New Delhi, and becoming the most populous country as well as the rise to the fifth-largest economy in the world demonstrate that India is now playing a significant role not only economically but also in the realm of science policy. But what is the driving force behind this rapid rise?

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Looking for web products and development agencies for online portal ConnectING

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Regional Office New Delhi is looking for an agency for technical support and development of its online portal- ConnectING.

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At rocket speed towards a science nation? Reforms and challenges in India’s higher education sector.

August 2023 saw a perfect sensation: India became the fourth country in the world to successfully land on the moon. This scientific triumph, close to the G20 summit in New Delhi, serves as a cornerstone bolstering India’s ambitions to assume a more prominent role in global politics, particularly as a nation at the forefront of science. For the country’s universities, these ambitions present both an opportunity and a challenge.

Interview

You have to actively engage in the discourse and be present onsite.

The current G20 presidency is an opportunity for India to present itself on an equal footing with the major industrialised nations of the world. Dr. Katja Lasch knows the country very well as the Director of the DAAD Regional Office and the German Centre for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New Delhi. In the interview, she talks about her experience as Co-Chair of the G20 Startup20 Engagement Group and DAAD and DWIH’s significant and successful work on ground in India.

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Incubators Connect 2.0: Innovation and Internationalisation

Incubators Connect 2.0: Innovation and Internationalisation is programme in India, for directors and managers of incubators  from India and Germany to discuss internationalization of incubators. As a part of the programme two workshops will take place, 27 February 2024 in New Delhi and 29 February 2024 in Bengaluru.  

Call for Applications

Innovators Connect – Tandem

Fully funded programme for young researchers, entrepreneurs, and early-stage start-up founders from Germany and India. Engage in problem solving with your peers. Get international exposure and information on the start-up and innovation landscape, intercultural understanding and take your entrepreneurial plans ahead! The call for applications is now closed.